Changing Portrait Characters
Lightning flashes transform these paintings (at the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Mansions) from benign to frightening. The portraits consist of:
- A beautiful young princess reclining on a couch who changes into a ferocious werecat. The werecat was originally a panther, but since 2005 has been a white tiger.
- A gallant knight (identified as "The Black Prince" in concept art) atop a rearing horse, who both become skeletal. The 2003 film's skeletal man and horse portrait is based on Napoleon rather than Edward, the Black Prince.
- A handsome young man who decays into a ghastly corpse. In 2005 at Disneyland, this portrait replaced that of a beautiful young woman transforming into an old hag, often referred to as "April–December" by fans. At Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, the Aging Man portrait can be found above the fireplace in the foyer.
- A proud galleon that devolves into a ghost ship, based on a Marc Davis concept for the Flying Dutchman.
- The beautiful, red-haired Medusa, who becomes a hideous Gorgon.
Read more about this topic: List Of Haunted Mansion Characters
Famous quotes containing the words changing, portrait and/or characters:
“It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Giles Lacey: I say, old boy, I’m trying to find exactly what your wife does do.
Maxim de Winter: She sketches a little.
Giles Lacey: Sketches. Oh not this modern stuff, I hope. You know, portrait of a lamp shade upside down to represent a soul in torment.”
—Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)
“No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)